Defend the Irish University Campaign—A call for Solidarity
University professors in Ireland are leading a campaign that links concerns for their work with a concern for education as a public good..
Call for Proposals
Events (Old)
44th Annual PNLHA Conference, “Mining Our Past”
The 44th Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Labour History Association (PNLHA) takes place in the historic village of Cumberland, B.C., June 13-15,.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- October 16, 2013
Call for Proposals
Events (Old)
MLWCH Colloquium, “Resistance and Remembrance: Collective Identities and the Uses of History”
Held at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5, 2014 the annual Midwest Labor and Working-Class.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- October 16, 2013
OpEd
Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, “Who cares for those who care?”
In 2009, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the majority, in Long Island Care at Home vs. Evelyn Coke upheld the.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- October 11, 2013
Labor History
Heather Thompson, “How Prisons Have Changed America’s Electoral Politics,” The Atlantic
What has it really cost the United States to build the world’s most massive prison system? To answer this question, some point to.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- October 7, 2013
Labor History
People
Inaugural David Montgomery Award (Deadline: November 1)
The David Montgomery Award will be given annually beginning in 2014 by the OAH with co-sponsorship by the Labor and Working-Class History Association.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- October 1, 2013
OpEd
Brian Greenberg, “Labor unions to focus on cementing partnerships”
In a June 2, 1897, letter to the New York Journal, Mark Twain responded to newspaper accounts that he either was seriously ill.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- October 1, 2013
LAWCHA
Can Labor and Greens Build Coalitions?
For years, the labor movement has talked of the need to build coalitions with other social movements. During the Trumka presdiency, the AFL-CIO.
- by Erik Loomis
- September 30, 2013
OpEd
Sarah Rose and Joshua Salzmann, “Our nation of bionic workers”
As Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez prepares to appeal his 211-game suspension, seeking the $86 million remaining on his contract, it would be.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- September 27, 2013
LAWCHA
The Perils of Faculty Speech: Revisiting Campus Labor and the Corporate University
This past summer, I organized a LaborOnline forum on “Campus Labor and the Corporate University” (July 9, 2013), which featured commentary from James.
- by Clarence Lang
- September 23, 2013